how to diffrentiate between same field names of two tables in a select query??

Question

i have more than two tables in my database and all of them contains same field names like

table A           table B       table C
field1            field1        field1
field2            field2        field2
field3            field3        field3
.                 .             .
.                 .             .
.                 .             .
.                 .             .

I have to write a SELECT query which gets almost all same fields from these 3 tables.Iam using something like this :-

select a.field1,a.field2,a.field3,b.field1,b.field2,b.field3,c.field1,c.field2,c.field3 from table A as a, table B as b,table C as c where so and so.

but when i print field1's value it gives me the last table values.

How can i get all the values of three tables with the same field names??? do i have to write individual query for every table OR there is any ways of fetching them all in a single query????

Answer 1

This is an artifact of how your programming tool handles duplicated field names. If you like, you can use AS to alias field names:

SELECT a.field1 AS a_field1, ...

It should then be accessible as a_field1.

Answer 2

You can alias the columns. e.g. Note: The syntax can vary depending on your DB.

SELECT
    a.field1 `A_Field1`,
    b.field1 `B_Field1`

SELECT
    a.field1 [A_Field1],
    b.field1 [B_Field1]

SELECT
    a.field1 AS A_Field1,
    b.field1 AS B_Field1

Answer 3

Just write like this,

select a.field1 as af1,a.field2 as af2,a.field3 as af3,b.field1 as bf1,b.field2 as bf2,b.field3 as bf3,c.field1 as cf1,c.field2 as cf2,c.field3 as cf3 from table A as a, table B as b,table C as c where so and so.